1998 2 door tahoe

[caw_86]

Got my green stuff back from powder coating. Making good progress on the front end, waiting on bolts to install idler arm. Just have the regear/build diff and it will be onto the brakes so i can roll it out of the garage to start the rear swap and rebuild

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[caw_86]

putting on brake caliper is not as easy as it seems it should be, couldnt get a slide bolt to line up with the threads, and some how pinched an internal rubber bushing. Which ripped trying to get out, had to hammer the bolt out, but it shredded the threads on a grease whole. So now i need to fix the seal and get a new slide bolt

 

[caw_86]

looking at my motor mounts, looks like i installed them wrong. tangs should be parallel with the floor not perpendicular

 

[caw_86]

Torsion bar bracket and bars installed today, the bracket is a bit tricky on the 2 door frame, not much room to maneuver that thing. Cleaned and polished some brake lines today as well. The bars glide right in and out of the keys and control arms, was very satisfying doing it

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[caw_86]

Definitely regret not replacing this when i had the dash out, such a pain in the but

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[caw_86]

Take two with caliper a success, kind of glad i messed up the bolt and bushing, i was attempting to put the passenger side on the driver side. Rotor spins with no metal grinding, i take that as a ok. Pretty sure the knuckle and the caliper do not have the .010-.024 total clearance from both being powder coated

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[caw_86]

My "while im in there" bug is getting to me today, slow day at work has me contemplating if I should just pull the entire transmission and transfer case out to clean and paint it. I have no reason to suspect anything is wrong with either so I think a rebuild or getting a reman is not in the picture, just 172k on each as far as i know. I plan on replacing the transmission cooler lines and transmission mount, not sure yet how challangeing those will be with the transmission in place.

 

[caw_86]

Youtube is full of videos of rear disk converisons and they are 99% LSMFG kits.

The kit with all the bells and whistles comes out to $1200 after tax.
My factory “gmt800 Kit” cost $900, and thats the price for good new quality parts. Could go cheaper if wanted to shop for lower quality. Only junk yard item worth getting that could save some money is the flange bracket. I think they are $70 new, they are just a pain to get in the junk yard. I walked around until i found some suvs that had the dif opened and removed, makes for getting the axle shafts out a lot easier. I had to buy one dust shield, 99% of junkyard ones were bent. Hopefully when i get to this project i can make a video of the process. Not pictured are the 4 bolts that mount the calipers.

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rear pads NS834	buybrakes	116
rear calipers S4764	amazon	169
rear disk rotors AR8645XPR	rockauto	184
parking brake kit 1792236	rockauto	63
parking brake cable 18p2542	rockauto	21
parking brake cable 18p2612	rockauto	28
Caliper bolt 14006	rockauto	12
brake spacer 60mm	cunninghammachine	123
Rear brake line 950.66500	Buybrakes	54

745-4000

1/2-20

rear brake

8

89.98

Dust shield Summit $25
Flang bracket Summit $15

 

[caw_86]

One of the flange threads has some king of obstruction. May require re tapping the thread

 

[revmatcher]

Structural integrity be damned, i do not have the hands of a tiny asian women to be cleaning in this stupid engineering mistake

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You win on diligence. I just wiped in there as far as I could and sprayed paint in there. There was so much oil inside that I doubt it will ever rust.....